Kapashera Screenshots

Google Earth is a great tool to analyze cities, particularly the rapidly changing peri-urban spaces. Consider the following images: they are divided not only by the Old Delhi-Gurgaon Highway, but by much more. The area in question 1. East of the Highway In case it’s hard to make out (clickable), these are farmhouses of the NCR…

On the Freedom Railway

After independence from Britain in the early 1960s, Tanzania and Zambia simultaneously embarked on a purportedly non-aligned, moderately socialist, and import-substitution-led path to modernization. Given the economic ideas prevalent amongst modernist leaders of the time, the state-led creation of basic infrastructure was considered particularly crucial in the endeavor. This was the context to the attempts of Julius…